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Famine in Gaza
CGIAR18.03.24-
Food security
By Rob Vos, Ismahane Elouafi, and Johan Swinnen Is it too late to save Gaza’s…
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CGIAR's Rachael McDonnell highlights systems approach in UK inquiry on achieving zero hunger
CGIAR14.03.24Rachael McDonnell, IWMI Deputy Director General and CGIAR Senior Program Director for Water Systems,…
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How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization
CGIAR07.03.24To feed and nourish ten billion people by mid-century, and to do so sustainably, our…
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Invest in women, ignite change in food systems
CGIAR05.03.24By Ismahane Elouafi, CGIAR Executive Managing Director On this International Women’s Day, we celeb…
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New report: CGIAR's Transformative Crop Technologies Drive $1.3 Trillion Impact
CGIAR27.02.24The cumulative impact of CGIAR-related crop technologies reached US$1,334 billion from 1961 to 2020,…
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Urban wetlands and the built environment: how Colombo’s green spaces enhance city life
IWMI02.02.24-
Environmental health
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Environmental health & biodiversity
Colombo must justify the renewal of its Ramsar Wetland City status this year. Has the…
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Impact study demonstrates Bt brinjal eggplant variety helps farmers in Bangladesh earn more with less pesticide
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)18.10.19-
Food security
Eggplant, known as brinjal in Bangladesh, is a high-value crop that is widely grown and consumed t…
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Building trust is key for Big Data to deliver benefits to farmers
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.10.19-
Big data
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Food security
More than 650 policymakers, agriculture researchers and data experts met to discuss how building tru…
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NARS partners in Asia pick up advanced groundnut breeding lines with market traits for their national trials
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)18.10.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
Advanced breeding lines which included high-oleic groundnut and those with market-preferred kernel s…
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Do we have enough science to mitigate water crises?
IWMI18.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
We need to do a much better job at communication, not only within the water…
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The way forward for climate-smart agriculture
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)18.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture brought together 410 participants fro…
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Blue maize is all the rage, but are consumers willing to pay?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)17.10.19-
Nutrition
Step into supermarkets or restaurants in Mexico City and surrounding towns and you might see…
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Measuring the climate impact of our diet choices
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)17.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The recently concluded 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture was not a usual sc…
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Official Launch of CGIAR’s “Crops to End Hunger” Initiative at Borlaug Dialogue
CGIAR17.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
CGIAR announced its new global initiative, Crops to End Hunger, this week at the World…
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Book launch: Ghana’s prospects for economic transformation
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Over the past 30 years, Ghana has experienced steady growth in per capita income and…
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Nobel Economics Prize: Experiment-based research to reduce hunger, malnutrition, and global poverty
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)17.10.19-
Gender equality
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Nutrition
I am delighted to congratulate Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer on winning this…
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ILRI Board Chair Lindsay Falvey, 2019 Crawford Fund Medal awardee, calls on ‘NextGen’ researchers to complete the battle against hunger among the world’s poor
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)17.10.19-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Lindsay Falvey, FTSE, FAIAS, who was presented with the 2019 Crawford Fund Medal during a…
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IITA-Rwanda releases a digital application in the fight against bacterial wilt disease in bananas
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)17.10.19IITA-Rwanda, together with partners, has launched a digital Application which will serve more than 5…
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New study reveals biodiversity benefits crop production
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)17.10.19Over the past two decades, approximately 20 percent of the Earth's cultivated surfaces have become…
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Matching local knowledge with science to promote regreening
World Agroforestry (ICRAF)16.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
Training farmers in tree-nursery establishment and management is a critical, nature-based solution t…
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Our food systems are in crisis, and it's not just from climate change
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)16.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
While global leaders gathered in New York City last month to discuss the climate crisis,…
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The cereals imperative of future food systems
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)15.10.19-
Environmental health
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Health
Pioneering research on our three most important cereal grains — maize, rice, and wheat —…
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Time to double down on the triple win of disaster risk reduction
CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)15.10.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
It seems like every week the world faces a brand new disaster. Floods, cyclones, drought…
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Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food insecurity hotspots
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)15.10.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need…
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